HC Deb 08 April 1965 vol 710 cc100-1W
Q12. Mr. Gresham Cooke

asked the Prime Minister whether the public speech of the First Secretary of State at Sheffield on 27th March about immigration represents the policy of Her Majesty's Government.

Mr. George Brown

In my speech at Sheffield on 28th March, I emphasised the need for economic expansion and greater industrial activity and the consequent necessity to create social conditions in which workers could move freely to the areas where they were needed.

I did not discuss immigration policy, but made the obvious point that problems in such fields as housing were not confined to areas in which immigrants from overseas settled but arose wherever economic development required an influx of new workers.